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JDPriestly

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1. This is a horrible mistake. Just criminal!

Reply to Baobab (Original post)

Sun May 22, 2016, 03:01 AM

May 2016

Water flows. It cannot be owned in the way that crops or coal can. This is just as wrong as can be.

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New Law ‘Facilitates Privatization’ of US Water Systems BUT Privatizations often Turn Into Disasters [View all] Baobab May 2016 OP

This is a horrible mistake. Just criminal! JDPriestly May 2016 #1

Whatever we the people fail effectively to claim for ourselves or the planet, snot May 2016 #2

Anyone who is able to have a cistern or septic tank SamKnause May 2016 #3

Along with privatization comes restrictions fasttense May 2016 #5

I am well aware. SamKnause May 2016 #6

Corporations will privatize the rights to air SamKnause May 2016 #4

"if our politicians allow it" awoke_in_2003 May 2016 #7

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